A fortunate discovery which I made of some Allium ursinum (wild garlick) gave zest for a week to our hashed mutton and our insipid broth.
In the last case, with the true furor of genius, you strike at once into the wild originality of the air; whereas, in the first insipid method, it is like the grating screw of the pins before the fiddle is brought into tune.
Let us spice theinsipid dish with some small variety.
You settle down, and you'll see how insipid it is: then you'll be making some quaint efforts at shrewdness and finesse yourself.
He would go back to the standard of opinions, style, the faded ornaments, and insipid formalities that came into fashion about forty years ago.
Antiquity after a time has the grace of novelty, as old fashions revived are mistaken for new ones; and a certain quaintness and singularity of style is an agreeable relief to the smooth and insipid monotony of modern composition.
We are lucky in having ran across you, and two other friends," as Philip's eyes fall on Carol Quinton and the insipid Bertie.
He scrutinises her fair face critically; it seems insipid to him now.
A young Englishman of insipid appearance is seated opposite, enjoying the mild pleasure of an ice à la panache.
The insipid young man starts forward, for Philip is paying at the counter, and kneels at her feet to repair the damage with his handkerchief.
It maintained a happy medium between crudeness and a vitiated taste: life was not insipid and colourless, as it is nowadays: men still ventured to appear what they were; there was still poetry in reality.
But they are selections of the particular moment when the sea is most insipid and characterless.
Yet he must have loved them, himself, in their native simplicity, and it seems almost incredible that he could have spoken as he did about Prior's insipid paraphrase of the "Nut Brown Maid.
In his subsequent correspondence with Mason and others, he became very contemptuous of MacPherson's "cold skeleton of an epic poem, that is more insipid than 'Leonidas.
It was half filled with amatory verses by juvenile rhymesters, and with tasteless insipid drawings in water colours, by boarding-school misses: which drawings my Dulcinea persisted in calling paintings.
In the centre was a deep dish with a dozen small stewed oysters floating in an ocean of liquor, as tasteless and insipid as dish-water.
Who ever heard a dull and insipid tune played or sung in the streets, or whistled by the boys?
This dress is much prettier than your insipid white.
Those insipid lips could curve into a smile which was almost dangerous.
Penelope Carlton was not at all a pretty girl, but she was fair, with very light blue eyes, and an insipid face.
Put it on to a hot dish and cover with a cloth, and stand over a saucepan of hot water till required; if left in the water it soon becomes insipid and watery.
If it boils it has a watery, insipid flavour, and drops of pieces very often when it is taken out of the water.
When Justice bids me on, shall I delay Because insipid Candour bars my way?
The insipid fruit (Unnáb) which looks like an apple in miniature, is much used in stews, etc.
The German warriors did not sing Goethe's hymns to Napoleon, nor the insipid model song of 'Luetzows wilder Jagd,' as they rushed into battle.
Cheap toy books from the five and ten cent counters, many of which are poorly bound, grotesquely illustrated and insipid in contents, had better be kept away from the children.
It gives appetizing relish to an otherwise insipid dish.
The insipid promise of the afternoon's fete, for instance--were his days to be an unending vista of such chatter, and trivial preening and strutting of visionless girls and young men?
Her caustic tongue made her generally disliked; but he found this an alluring novelty, after theinsipid small talk of the others.
This attachment rendered all other dissipation superfluous and insipid to me.
There is no soul in this insipid bus'ness; Life has another fate and other joys.
Soup should not be greasy nor insipidin flavor, neither should it be served in large quantities nor without the proper accompaniment.
Because of the long cooking veal needs, together with the difficulty encountered in chewing it and its somewhat insipid flavor, which fails to excite the free flow of gastric juice, this meat is more indigestable than beef.
Before distillation the liquor is simply called tchoo, or wine, and in this state is a very insipid and disagreeable beverage.
I dine then; afterwards I work, I receive tiresome visits; with these comes a detail of insipid matters of business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insipid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
